RITA'S CXLVII: Oh, if There’s an Original Thought Out There, I Could Use it Right Now

**jessecuster3** · 02-06-2013, 04:07 PM

I picked up two weeks of comics today, I still haven't read the last 3 weeks worth, but I am deep into the Marvel book.

**Spike-X** · 02-06-2013, 04:08 PM

Originally Posted by Pól Rua

Okay. This morning, I was introduced to this thing: The Halley VI Crawling Antarctic Base... a self-contained research facility capable of getting up and moving around as need be.

And...this is a real thing?

Oh science, just when I think I couldn't love you any more!

**Spike-X** · 02-06-2013, 04:08 PM

Originally Posted by jessecuster3

I picked up two weeks of comics today, I still haven't read the last 3 weeks worth, but I am deep into the Marvel book.

Yeah, it's damn good reading if you don't mind knowing how the sausage is made.

**Michael P** · 02-06-2013, 04:22 PM

Originally Posted by Jared H.

I love Hickman's Avengers. This latest issue has a reference to Morrison's New X-Men and

spoilers:

Dan Dare from Howling Commandos

end of spoilers all in one issue.

It is spiffy, isn't it?

Originally Posted by Spike-X

The comic that seems to have gone to a weekly schedule. I'd swear #5 is the 3rd issue in as many weeks.

Yeah, issue 3 was so late, they had to publish issue 4 the week after to keep it on schedule for January. Issue 5 is actually on time.

**Charles RB** · 02-06-2013, 04:24 PM

My god, the Halley is an Anderson creation!

Hopefully, it won't have a disastrous accident and need International Rescue.

**Spike-X** · 02-06-2013, 04:24 PM

Originally Posted by Michael P

Yeah, issue 3 was so late, they had to publish issue 4 the week after to keep it on schedule for January. Issue 5 is actually on time.

Gotcha. I figured it would be something like that.

**Spike-X** · 02-06-2013, 04:24 PM

Originally Posted by Charles RB

My god, the Halley is an Anderson creation!

Hopefully, it won't have a disastrous accident and need International Rescue.

Hopefully it will, and that's when we find out the Thunderbirds are real!

**Pól Rua** · 02-06-2013, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by Spike-X

Hopefully it will, and that's when we find out the Thunderbirds are real!

I like how you think.

Of course, within seconds of seeing it, a friend of mine and I had plotted an entire episode involving dramatic shots of cracking ice, a widening chasm, someone saying "Don't worry, it's perfectly safe!", Thunderbird 1 & 2 unable to approach because the heat from their jets was melting the ice, and a dramatic conclusion where Thunderbird 4 has to use magnetic clamps at the front to hold onto a pod and travel under the ice, so it can be deployed from below... "H-hold it s-s-steady, Gordon, h-hold it s-steady..."
But one of the magnetic clamps starts to fail, and the pod looks like it's going to tear loose, destroying both the crawling lab AND TB4...!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4mdFtE7UTo

**Spike-X** · 02-06-2013, 04:36 PM

Originally Posted by Pól Rua

I like how you think.

Of course, within seconds of seeing it, a friend of mine and I had plotted an entire episode involving dramatic shots of cracking ice, a widening chasm, someone saying "Don't worry, it's perfectly safe!", Thunderbird 1 & 2 unable to approach because the heat from their jets was melting the ice, and a dramatic conclusion where Thunderbird 4 has to use magnetic clamps at the front to hold onto a pod and travel under the ice, so it can be deployed from below... "H-hold it s-s-steady, Gordon, h-hold it s-steady..."
But one of the magnetic clamps starts to fail, and the pod looks like it's going to tear loose, destroying both the crawling lab AND TB4...!!!

I love it!